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The girl dashed into a stormy Polish march, which she played very well, but with a mechanical precision which seemed to offend Clarke, who rose and laid his hand on her arm. "Wait, you're not in the mood yet." He turned to Serviss. "The spirit of our discussion is upon her. She is very sensitive to such things.
I confess I haven't felt free to make any real tests you can't treat her like a professional, you know but she seems to have induced by long practice a genuine coma, and until some clamp is applied I can't say whether she or Clarke is the chief offender. Now what would you do?" Serviss burned with the heat of his anger. "Don't reveal to me any more of this wretched business. I can't advise.
"Many of the good old 'stunts' of the professional medium are reproduced. Lights dance about, guitars are played, chairs nose about your knees, hands are laid on your cheek, and so on." "You don't think she is wilfully tricking?" Serviss asked this with manifest anxiety. "There's every inducement darkness, deeply anxious friends. It would not be strange if she did 'help on' now and then."
As if to save his reputation the preacher sang "The Palms," and sang it magnificently; and the girl accompanied him with such accuracy and good judgment that Serviss was able to infer long hours of practice, and this did not please him. "His influence on her and on this household is not good," he decided. "That chap is decidedly morbid. If he is married, so much the worse.
'One by one all the familiar manifestations of the spiritualistic medium are being reproduced by this pretty maiden here in this mountain home." "Good Lord, what a pity!" exclaimed Serviss. Britt read on: "'The mother, aggrieved and alarmed by the rude way in which the girl is buffeted, has been put to her paces to conceal the topsy-turvy doings of her household.
"Oh, I see!" His inflection checked her confidence, and they rode for a little way in silence. Serviss was thinking. The situation is now clear. Clarke is working upon this sweet and charming girl in order to have her take the place of his dead wife. A sorrowful thing to think of, but not so bad as I have been imagining. At length he asked: "What else can you tell me about this Mr. Clarke?
"I wish you would come again. I should really like your advice about Viola's future. Can't you come in this evening?" "I shall be very glad to do so. At what hour?" "At eight. Perhaps she will be able to play for you then." With a feeling of having blundered into a most unpleasant predicament, through a passing interest in a pretty girl, Serviss retreated to his hotel across the river.
"I saw you on the street," replied Britt, without change of expression, "so I looked over the register to find out who you were. I'm mighty glad to meet up with you. I know you very well by reputation, and Weissmann is an old acquaintance of our family's. What are you doing out here? Visiting the Lamberts?" For some reason this directness disturbed Serviss a little. "No oh no!
Science is hopeless. We alone can save the world from despair." "That is my father," explained Mrs. Lambert, "he is my daughter's chief 'control, He cares for her teaches her." Again the floating horn passed Morton's face, and a boyish voice called, "Mamma, are you happy?" "Yes, dear, when you are with me." "We're always with you. We're glad P'ofessor Serviss came." "So are we, Waltie."
"That is my Adele," announced Clarke, in a voice so convincing in its tone of satisfied longing that the women of his audience again rustled with ecstasy. "I think he is beautiful!" exclaimed one. "A voice is whispering to me," Clarke continued. "It is asking for some one I cannot quite make out. Who is it? Again, please. Morton Serviss?" His voice rose in surprise. "He is not here.
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